As the much publicized, and seriously critical for America’s future, mid-term Congressional election season quickly draws upon us; it is beginning to become crystal clear that should-be convicted felon and Bush team political brain Karl “I’m Above the Law” Rove is using many of the same plays from his backroom playbook of 2000 and 2004. Save for stealing yet another election outright (see Jeb Bush’s Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004), Mr. Rove is clearly reverting to his leak, print and hide tactics of scaring American voters with strange and unsubstantiated reports of impending terror attacks. It is funny how these reports have never emanated from the Department of Homeland Security…..aren’t they our primary defenders in this global war on terror?

The latest in this despicable and disreputable game the Bushies have perpetrated on the ever gullible American public is the NY Daily News report today of the alleged break-up of a terror plot to blow up New York’s Holland Tunnel to flood the financial district in lower Manhattan. Does this administration really believe that ALL of America is so stupid as to believe that something like that is even possible? Think about it: if this fantastic comic book like plot were even true; how could blowing up a tunnel located BENEATH the bed of the Hudson River and a full 93 feet at its lowest point beneath the mean high water mark of the river possibly cause a flood of Katrina like proportions? I always thought that Manhattan lay above the water level, even at high tide. Maybe I just don’t understand Republican physics (I know I don’t understand their math because they keep spending money they don’t have and bankrupting our present and future in the process).

Another interesting bit to today’s wonderful story is the media outlet chosen to release the breaking news: the rag sheet of all rag sheets the ever questionable New York Daily News. I mean, come on, since when do New Yorkers or Americans get their real news from this paper, such as it is? The most useful information found on its pages are the sports scores, horoscopes and celebrity gossip. And since when do “senior administration officials” and/or FBI agents confide in reporters from the NY Daily News? And I wonder why do these unnamed government officials never give their names?

It is not coincidence; it is page 2 of the Rove shuck and duck playbook: create yet another diversion aimed at scaring honest Americans so that they forget all of our criminal activities and never-ending incompetence. Give me back Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, please. At least Bill’s “crimes” never almost got Hawaii nuked or had the entire Arab world irrevocably ticked off at us.

From the Associated Press this morning I lift the following:

“At this time we have no indication of any imminent threat to the New York transportation system, or anywhere else in the U.S.,” Richard Kolko, Washington-based FBI special agent, said in a statement to Associated Press Radio.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said that federal law enforcement and New York police have been monitoring a plot to attack New York’s mass transit system for at least eight months.

“There was nothing imminent, but it was being monitored for long period time,” said King, who said he has received regular intelligence briefings on the alleged plot as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

King said he had been unable to publicly disclose the plot because to do so would risk the investigation.
“This is ongoing, that’s why I’ve said nothing about it until now,” King said. “It would have been better if this had not been disclosed.”

A government official with knowledge of the investigation said while the alleged plot did focus on New York’s transportation system, it did not target the Holland Tunnel. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing, would give no further details about the intended targets.